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Monsoon death toll nears 700 in India
Jul 28 2005 11:11PM (CT)
BOMBAY, India (AP) - Rescuers working beneath leaden skies pulled bodies from rivers of mud and piles of water-soaked debris Friday as they searched for survivors of record-breaking monsoon rains that killed almost 700 people.
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U.S., N. Korea hold longest meeting yet
Jul 28 2005 10:54PM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - U.S. and North Korean envoys held their fourth one-on-one meeting this week Friday as six-nation talks aimed at persuading Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear weapons program stretched into the longest such negotiations since the process began in 2003.
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Stampede in Bombay kills at least 15
Jul 28 2005 5:03PM (CT)
BOMBAY, India (AP) - A stampede set off by rumors of a dam burst killed at least 15 people, including seven children, in a Bombay shantytown after record-breaking monsoon rains, a top government official said Friday.
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Ten killed in India oil platform fire
Jul 28 2005 1:31PM (CT)
BOMBAY, India (AP) - Ten people were confirmed dead and several were still missing Thursday from a massive fire on an oil platform in India's biggest oil field. Ships and helicopters rescued more than 350 survivors.
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Bomb on crowded train in India kills 7
Jul 28 2005 10:27AM (CT)
LUCKNOW, India (AP) - A bomb exploded Thursday on a crowded passenger train in northern India, killing at least seven people and injuring 50, a railway official said.
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U.N. to help prosecute Afghan drug cases
Jul 28 2005 9:00AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A team of anti-drug investigators, lawyers and judges will start prosecuting major narcotics cases in Afghanistan _ the world's largest opium and heroin producer _ as part of a new U.N. program launched Thursday.
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North Korean defectors detained in China
Jul 28 2005 7:32AM (CT)
BEIJING (AP) - Five people claiming to be North Korean asylum seekers tried to enter a foreign compound in eastern China but were stopped by security guards who turned them over to police, a Japanese Embassy spokesman said Thursday.
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Pakistani police arrest Pearl suspect
Jul 28 2005 6:25AM (CT)
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) - An Islamic militant who set up the initial meeting between Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and his kidnappers has been arrested in eastern Pakistan, a senior police official confirmed Thursday.
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Chinook destroyed by fire in Afghanistan
Jul 28 2005 6:05AM (CT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A Chinook helicopter carrying six U.S.-led coalition crew and 25 Afghan troops was destroyed by a fire after making a hard landing near the Pakistan border, the U.S. military said Thursday. No one was hurt.
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India opposition leader to be retried
Jul 28 2005 4:51AM (CT)
RAE BAREILLY, India (AP) - A court on Thursday charged India's top opposition figure and leaders of his Hindu nationalist party with inciting Hindu mobs to demolish a 16th century mosque in 1992, an attack that sparked bloody nationwide rioting.
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